21 Responses to inspirational music : Landfill Harmonic- The world sends us garbage… We send back music.

What really makes this project work is the instrument-making skills of its members.

But I have a feeling that, in the long run, instrument-making is going to become a lost art. Why build a violin or a clarinet, when﻿ you can get a much wider array of sounds out of an electronic synthesizer chip the size of a fingernail?

In the US, being able to afford musical instruments can be just as out of reach to those interested in playing music.﻿ For 100+ yrs, Jug Band musicians have made and played their own instruments from common or discarded items. For 35 yrs, I’ve turned trash into musical treasure. My Frankenstein resophonic guitars are made from repurposed discarded materials and items. A poster of my homemade Nobro guitar can be seen at, sites.google.com/site/reggiemiles/reggie-s-nobro
I play Folk/Blues.

Can you make some posters with these instruments and the saying on the bottom of it “The world send us﻿ garbage…We send back music.” I would definitely buy some and I’m pretty sure others would as well.